Makes a Difference

A Pyramid Makes a Difference
By Arber Spaho

What is knowledge? What does it mean to know? Can people know the world as it really is? Are there true things we humans can know with absolute certainty? Are there things that we can never know? Stop dear reader. Do not start to think already, for we do not want your answer; not now anyway. It is a very high possibility that it may consist of an individual belief expressed with closed eyes and a smile, or worse, a minuscule form of an expressed individuality we people like to define as ‘opinion’. Just in case you still did not recognize us, we go around by the name ‘anarchistic epistemology’.

Welcome to Earth (Yes! We are polite enough to skeptic forms of life like you who did not stop reading after the fifth sentence). We seek knowledge and its foundation, the relation between knowledge and truth, the roles played by reason and the human senses in acquiring knowledge. We are the ones who let Buddha smile, science experiment and observe, Christianity hate and ‘educate’, Islam exist. Yet, we are everyone’s enemies, even ourselves. Why? Because knowledge is the knowing of that we cannot know.

The term ‘epistemology’ comes from the Greeks. ‘Episteme’ meaning ‘knowledge’ and ‘logos’ meaning ‘reason’, therefore, we proudly qualify in the study of knowledge. We have been around for an undefined amount of ‘time’, but we know we have been around for ‘long’. You may be surprised to know that even you are one of us. Even though with a different interpretation, you ask questions (sometimes unaware of their purpose or importance), therefore, you may state that you too want to know; meaning you seek truth, or as we say it: ‘Want to know what knowledge is?’ just like us. We are pretty sure that now you got the message of what epistemology is about (note: repeating is not always ‘good’, neither ‘bad’), but you may want to know what anarchistic means in our epistemological worldview. It ca be many things, but it helps to achieve progress in anyone of the senses one cares to chose.